RECENT ARRIVALS

By Vance, Zebulon Baird. (Edited by Frontis W. Johnston)

Raleigh: State Department of Archives and History, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. 475 pages. Hardcover with a white and blue dust jacket. Very light wear to the jacket. The jacket has a few bumped places. The prior owner has written his name on the front pastedown and applied his embossed blind stamp to the front flyleaf. The book is sound and clean.

By Raab, James W.

Yuma, Manhattan, Kansas: Sunflower University Press, 1996. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 263 pages, indexed. Hardcover in a black and red illustrated dust jacket. Minimal wear to dust jacket, only slight edge-wear, but the jacket is on very slightly crooked. Prior owner's name is written at top of front flyleaf, along with his embossed stamp mark. Text is clean. Illustrated with several maps.

By Bradford, Gamaliel

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo. 276 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in blue cloth. An ex-library copy with full markings, including a shelf label on the spine, bookplates, ink stamps, etc. The binding is worn and shows some spotting but is generally sound. Secure inner hinges. Text is toned. A reading or reference copy.

By McCall, Samuel W.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good. 8vo. 303 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in navy blue cloth. Light to moderate wear to the binding. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Some pencil underlining and marginal notations throughout as well as heavy pencil notations on the rear flyleaves. Signed on the front pastedown by S. F. Mordecai. Mordecai (1852-1927) was the first dean of the Law School at Trinity College (now Duke University) in Durham, North Carolina. Reed (1839-1902) was a lawyer and politician from Maine who was a powerful Republican and was Speaker of the House.

By Tarbox, Increase N.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 329 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in green cloth. Light wear to the binding. A sound copy and clean within. This is a 1967 reprint of the 1884 First Edition.

By Forest, Lee de; Edited by Linton K. Keith and Arthur Brogue

Chicago: Wilcox & Follett Co., 1950. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. 502 pages, indexed. Hardcover with a blue dust jacket. The jacket is worn and has edge tears and chips. There is one triangular chip at the top edge of the front panel, affecting one letter of the title. The book is sound with secure inner hinges. Pencil notations on the rear flyleaf.

By Cardan, Jerome; (Translated by Jean Stoner)

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1930. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 8vo. 311 pages. Hardcover with a tan pictorial dust jacket. The jacket is very worn with several tears with old tape repairs on the reverse. There is a large tear across the front panel of the jacket. The book itself is toned within. A sound copy.

By Cooper, Lane

Ithaca, New York: The Comstock Publishing Co., 1917. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. 74 pages. Hardcover bound in navy blue cloth. The binding shows some rubbing and wear with some small pale spotting. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. There is a 1938 Chapel Hill, NC owner's signature at the bottom of the front paste down. Text is unmarked.

By Furniss, Harry

London: Hurst and Blacknett, Ltd. Hardcover. Very Good. Harry Furniss. 8vo. 286 pages. Hardcover in blue cloth. Binding is rubbed. There is bumpping at corners, and some slight scuffing. Bumping at headcap/foot. Front flyleaf has been removed. Text is clean.

By Anon.

Chicago and New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1923. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good. Quartos. 613; 366; 374 pages. Indexed in the first volume. Hardcover bound in blue textured cloth. The bindings show rubbing and wear, and the spines are a little sunned. Volume III is a little shaken, and the rear inner hinge is starting. The third volume also has some damping at the top of the front cover. Pages 149-172 have a large hard crease, affecting the text at the bottom corner and up the fore edge, affecting the text, and the last few leaves of this section have the folded section broken off. Thus, a reading or reference set only. The other two volumes seem sound and clean within.